This course is the foundation course for management majors (course code replaces MG303). The course traces the development of management thought and practice from pre- Industrial Revolution to preparation for Century 2000. The course presents the shift in management paradigms and legal requirements; the changes in organizational structures; and the evolution of management theories. Goals of the course include helping students integrate theories into a coherent knowledge background for advanced management courses and building a framework for future management practice.
Prerequisite: 30 Credits3 Credits

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This course provides an introduction to modeling and scientific techniques comprising management science and demonstrates their applications to management problems for effective decision making. The topics will include linear optimization, transportation and network models, integer optimization, multi-objective decision making, decision trees and project management. MS Excel Solver will be used for problems and case studies. This course is a required course for all business majors.
Prerequisites: MGMT3100 and STAT2110 or MGMT2100
3 Credits

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The course takes a three level view of behavior, focusing on individuals, groups, and organizations as complete systems. Through the use of team building exercises, discussion, case studies, role playing, and research, students sharpen their abilities to understand and influence behavior within organizations. Experiential materials assist students in achieving greater self-awareness. Topics include personality characteristics, motivation, group behavior, leadership, power, communication, conflict, and decision-making. Communication Skills sections available.
Prerequisites: MGMT3100 and 60 Credits3 Credits

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The objective of this course is to introduce the student to the key functions of an operations planning and control system. Operations planning and control systems provide information for the efficient flow of materials, the effective utilization of people and equipment and the proper coordination of internal activities with suppliers and customers.
Prerequisite: MGMT2100
3 Credits

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This course documents the process to plan, start, and run a new business. It consists of a combination of lecture and workshop to create a business plan that is both comprehensive and
sufficient to start and run a business. The plan can be used to approach funding sources to attract capital. The road to successful entrepreneurship begins with passion for an idea, a business plan based on research and analysis, and the persistence to pursue the vision. Whether a student always dreamed of being an entrepreneur or recent circumstances triggered thoughts about starting a business, FastTrac NewVenture is designed to introduce
him/her to the key elements of successful entrepreneurship.
FastTrac NewVenture offers essential business information to help students develop their entrepreneurial skills and build their business on a strong foundation. FastTrac offers nontraditional, experiential learning with hands-on coaching sessions. Opportunities to network and learn from their peers as well as seasoned entrepreneurs and professionals who work with
start-up businesses are a key part of the experience. In this program, students will develop a business concept and take it through each step of the business planning process. Through
readings and research, activities and action steps, they will plan and analyze their entrepreneurial vision by creating a thoroughly researched and tested Business Plan.
3 Credits

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MGMT3530 - Entrepreneurship Experience II
Spring 2015

The FastTrac GrowthventureTM program is focused on helping entrepreneurs sharpen their strategic thinking skills as they plan for growth and build sustainable businesses. This integrated package consists of the Entrepreneur Manual and the online toolkit designed to enable entrepreneurs to gain the entrepreneurial knowledge and strategic planning skills required for business growth.
Throughout program, entrepreneurs are coached to consider key concepts. They learn that successful entrepreneurs:
Think strategically and critically in all aspects of the business.
Focus on the planning process to grow the business and increase revenue and profitability.
Reflect on how they really want to manage the work using proven leadership strategies and utilizing insights about healthy organizational management.
Structure and operate the business to maximize efficiency.
Align strategic goals and the critical functions of the business.
Outline specific action steps to achieve their business' vision and strategy.
3 Credits

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MGMT3600 - Human Resource Management
Spring 2015

This course stresses that the acquisition, training, and maintenance of human resource assets involves both a process and a partnership between managers and human resource specialists. Relevant areas of the course content include legal guidelines for human resource managers, federal and state laws affecting human resource management, workplace diversity, equal employment opportunity, forecasting, recruitment and selection, orientation and training, performance appraisal, employee rights, employment-at-will, due process, and discipline. Lecture, group case problems, role playing, and in-basket exercises are used.
Prerequisites -- MGMT3100 and 60 Credits.3 Credits

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We are in the midst of a global entrepreneurial revolution. The rate of new business start-ups, patents, new product and service introductions, technology licenses, and other indicators of entrepreneurial activities are at an all time high globally. Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in finding solutions to challenges facing society including health, communications, security, infrastructure, education, energy, and the environment. This course introduces students to the process of moving intellectual property from ideation to commercialization.
Prerequisites: MARK3100 and MGMT31003 Credits

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This course introduces the student to the collective bargaining process between the employer and a union. Areas of concentration include the history and impact of organized labor, union organizations, labor laws, contract negotiations and contract implementation, the grievance procedure, arbitration, wages, and seniority rights. Group case problems and a collective bargaining simulation are integral components of the course. Communication Skills sections available.
Prerequisites: MGMT3100 and 60 credits3 Credits

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This course introduces the fundamentals of 'sustainability', a recent global phenomenon that has driven vital changes in business models by empowering individuals to seek opportunity in environmental, economic and social solutions when presented with what others see as insurmountable problems.
Prerequisite: MGMT3100
3 Credits

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MGMT3800 - Adv Labor Mgt Relatns/Negotiat
Spring 2015

This advanced course in labor relations covers the issues of grievance resolution, arbitration and contract negotiation. Students will participate in mock grievance hearings, an arbitration proceeding and a contract negotiation simulation. Students will develop advanced written and oral communication skills required for resolving conflict while learning the legal concepts involved in labor management conflict resolution.
3 credits
Prerequisite: MGMT37003 Credits

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This course enables the student to investigate the concept of CSR in a point-counterpoint manner. Together the instructor and the students will look at the arguments of its proponents as well as its critics. Regardless of how one might feel about the duties and obligations of companies to the broader community, as opposed to just meeting the obligations and wishes of the company owners, dealing with the issue of CSR is a fact of life for large companies, and they ignore it at their peril as a well-led consumer boycott can do irreparable harm to a company.
Prerequisite: MGMT3100
3 Credits

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MGMT3950 - Mng Grth/Profit Sustainability
Spring 2015

Sustainability-minded organizations are confronted with at least two categories of priority-setting issues: which sustainability projects to pursue; and, how to evaluate a project that requires investment but improves the environmental footprint against a project that does little for the environment but reduces costs. This course provides the user with the measurement, analysis, improvement, and control tools required to sift through project contributions to sustainability improvement and the associated costs.
Prerequisites: STAT2110 and MGMT3180
3 Credits

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MGMT4050 - International Business
Spring 2015

International Business introduces the student to the fundamentals of global business operations. The emergence of new coalitions, arenas of business and intense global competition for limited resources are studied in historical context. The course stresses the vital importance of understanding unique, environmental factors as major determinants of success or failure in managing around the world. Management, marketing, accounting, economics and finance are included in an integrated approach to doing business in other countries.
Prerequisite: MGMT3100 or MARK31003 Credits

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This course addresses the strategic choices involved in compensation systems. Concerns for the equity and acceptability of the internal pay structure, external competitiveness regarding pay, and individual employee contributions will be emphasized. The course also covers employee benefits, the influence of government and unions on pay systems, pay discrimination, incentive systems, and merit pay. Coursework includes application problems, casework, and special projects in job analysis, job descriptions, and job evaluation.
Prerequisite: MGMT36003 Credits

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This course introduces the students to the variety of organizations in the United States nonprofit sector and provides a foundation for understanding the skills necessary for managing those organizations. The course will be a combination of lecture and class discussion. Some assignments may be online. Topics include the role and function of nonprogit organizations in a civil society, the legal framework and operating priciples for nonprofit organizations in the United States, as well as issues of governance, ethics and accountability in today's nonprofit organization.
Prerequisites: MGMT3100 and 60 credits3 Credits

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MGMT4180 - Qualtiy Management/Assurance
Spring 2015

Quality and its impact on U.S. companies? competitiveness have captured the attention of consumers, industrialists and government officials alike, typically under the framework of total quality management, Quality Assurance will focus on process management and continuous improvement. Specific topics that will be examined are: the cost of poor quality; the definition, documentation and diagnoses of a process; measurement system analysis and process capability; Six Sigma as a business philosophy; tools for DMAIC; and the fundamentals of statistical process control.
Prerequisites: MGMT3180 and STAT2110 or MGMT21003 Credits

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This course, a capstone course in human resource mangement, is developed as a summarization of information obtained in other courses in the major and in the support courses that are provided. The focus will be to provide a strong exposure to current problems in the field with the opportunity for each student to employ problem solving skills necessary for success in the human resource field. Outside speakers and case study presentations will be used.
Prerequisites: 90 credits and MGMT36003 Credits

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MGMT4270 - Quantitative Analy For Hum Res
Spring 2015

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3 Credits

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MGMT4400 - Management Simulation
Spring 2015

This course replicates the decision making required of managers. Students form company teams and draw on all of their learning to compete in a dynamic, complex, and realistic marketplace. A computer model is used to simulate changing external environmental conditions. In their decision making, students are required to anticipate and react to these changes. Team dynamics and strategic management are emphasized.
Prerequisites: MGMT3100 and 90 credits. 3 Credits

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In recent decades supply chains have become increasingly complex, and supply chain management has become increasingly important to business performance. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the discipline of supply chain management, which enables firms to better coordinate information and material flows relevant to sourcing, operations, distribution, and integration processes that occur along a supply chain. Students will be exposed to both conceptual and quantitative models, and will practice applying them to realistic cases. It is expected that by the end of the course students will be able to apply knowledge and techniques learned in the course to diagnose problems and recommend solutions related to a variety of challenges that occur in supply chains.
Prerequisite: STAT2110
3 Credits

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The primary emphasis of this course is to focus on the recruitment process including job analysis and design, realistic job preview, job selection, orientation, and managing retention of employees. Within the context of each of these human resource areas will be an assessment of legal requirements, legislative laws and regulations related to staffing. The use of experiential exercises, outside readings, internet tools, lectures/videos on non-textbook material, related to recruitment will be utilized as a basis for the class. While this course examines human resources recruitment and retention from a domestic and global perspective, we will limit our focus on certain parts of the world due to time constraints of the length of the class.
Prequisites: MGMT3600 and 60 credits
3 Credits

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MGMT4550 - Sustainable Global Hum Res Mgt
Spring 2015

This course is an examination of the role of human resource management in efforts of sustainability for today's organizations. Addressing the challenges of social, economical and environmental issues is becoming essential to business practices and how we do business around the world. Role of human resource systems is critical to the achievement of these goals. Emphasis will be placed on the strategic role HR has in developing and implementing a sustainable strategy and in measuring specific sustainable goals. We focus on what organizations must do to attract and maintain their valuable employees while creating a sustainable workforce on a global basis. The use of experiential exercises, outside readings, internet tools, lectures on non-textbook material, and various movie clips with a HR and sustainability interest will be utilized as a basis for the class. While this course examines human resouces and sustainability from a global perspective, we will limit our focus on certain parts of the world due to time constraints of the length of the class.
Prerequisite: MGMT36003 Credits

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MGMT4560 - Project Management
Spring 2015

Students will be introduced to all phases of the project management process, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. Special emphasis will be given to the application of software tools and analytical methods used to support these processes. Course topics are drawn from the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge, which is respected as a basis for education and practice in the project management field. Project management certification options will be discussed, and students completing the course will have completed the education requirement to be eligible to take the Project Management Institute's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification exam.
Prerequisites: STAT2110 and MGMT31003 Credits

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This course (Current Management Topics, Issues, and Controversies) is an in-depth analysis of the leading current topics in the management field. This course is designed to develop and enhance students' writing and verbal skills by requiring them to write, present, and defend a research paper in a topical issue in the discipline.
Prerequisite: MGMT3100 and 90 Credits
3 Credits

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MGMT4850 - Strategic Management
Spring 2015

This course is the capstone course for seniors in business administration. Students learn and apply the concepts and processes of strategy using a case methodology. Emphasis is upon the fit between external opportunities/threats and internal resources that produce superior performance. Major topics include:mission statements, environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation.
Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225, FINA3000, MGMT3100 and 90 credits3 Credits

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